[78-L] Darwin was wrong

[David Lennick]

tote
1 /to?t/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [toht] Show IPA ,verb, tot?ed, tot?ing, noun
–verb (used with object)
1. 	to carry, as on one's back or in one's arms: to tote a bundle.
2. 	to carry on one's person: to tote a gun.
3. 	to transport or convey, as on a vehicle or boat.

ON a boat. Not to tote a boat.

–noun
4. 	the act or course of toting.
5. 	something that is toted.
6. 	tote bag.

tote
2 /to?t/ Show Spelled Pronunciation [toht] Show IPA ,
–verb (used with object), tot?ed, tot?ing.
Informal. to add up; total.

http://dictionary.reference.com/browse/tote

Webster's gives as a second meaning "haul, convey"..so if one man can do it, 
then I guess he's entitled to git a little drunk (and land in jail).

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> David Lennick wrote:
>> Hey..somebody tell Oscar that you can't tote a barge.
>>
>> dl
> 
> The HELL you can't!  On a canal and many rivers that was about the ONLY 
> way to move a barge.  They didn't have motors.  They didn't have 
> tugboats.  People or horses towed barges by ropes to them on the "Tow 
> Paths" along the banks.  Why else do you think those pathways were 
> called TOW Paths???????  Barges could also be pushed by pole walkers on 
> board the barge if the water was shallow.  Remember how this was done in 
> the Davy Crockett/Mike Fink films?
>